The FCA’s Retirement Income Advice thematic review seems to be gathering momentum and the latest developments come as no surprise.
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Here’s a question. What happens to ongoing adviser charges if the adviser dies? This came up recently when
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We drew attention to the FCA’s Retirement Income Advice Survey in our ‘What lies beneath?’ article last month and there
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Benjamin Franklin once said: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”. You could
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One of the FCA’s recent publications, Regulation Round Up, contained several interesting articles. Of course, Consumer Duty occupied plenty of
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In 1644, English judge Sir Edward Coke was quoted as saying: “For a man’s house is his castle” and this
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At a recent compliance seminar, there was much discussion about adviser fees in light of the imminent Consumer Duty requirements.
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A high proportion of advice firms operate a largely recurring income model and with this comes the obligation to conduct
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Most firms will have at least vague recollections of the FSA’s thematic review of pension switching and the report it
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Niels Bohr, the Nobel laureate in Physics and father of the atomic model, is quoted as saying, “Prediction is very
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